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Stegopelta
Extinct genus of dinosaurs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stegopelta (meaning "roofed shield") is a genus of struthiosaurin nodosaurid dinosaur. It is based on a partial skeleton from the latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian-age Lower and Upper Cretaceous Belle Fourche Member of the Frontier Formation of Fremont County, Wyoming, USA.
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Stegopelta | |
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Pelvic armor | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | †Ornithischia |
Clade: | †Thyreophora |
Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
Family: | †Nodosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Nodosaurinae |
Clade: | †Struthiosaurini |
Genus: | †Stegopelta Williston, 1905 |
Species: | †S. landerensis |
Binomial name | |
†Stegopelta landerensis Williston, 1905 | |
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